The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

procession at Vergennes the other day.
P1cKpocKErs drew about 81 900 from the
pockets of visitors at the Bennington cele-
bration.
REV. A. p. TRACY of Sutton has received
unanimous call to the Free Baptist church
at Alton, n. II.
ALMoN FLINT's farm buildings in Han
cock were burned recently, with their con-
tents Loss not large.
THREE prisoners escaped from Bennng-
ton county Jail the other night by saving
out with common case-knfe.
REV. Il. G. FLAGG of Fair Haven has been
called to the pastorate of the Congregational
church, Newport, to succeed Rev. IL. L. Wild.
THE Vermont officers annual reunion is
to be held in Bratteboro about the Goth of
October, when Ex-Governor Long of Massa-
chusetts is to deliver the address.
MIR. MOODY has accepted the invitation of
the churches of Woodstock to preach three
DAYS, commencing September ID, and the
people of the town and vicinity are prepar-
ing for a grand revival. The evangelist will
be the guest of Hon. Frederick Billings.
THE annual exhibition of the Vermont
Horse breeders Association will be held at
Rutland September 18th, Sth and 9th There
are 10 be nine speed contests, five of which
are for colts from one to five years old. The
exhibition of horses promises to be the
largest ever shown in the state. Over
$4,000 will be distributed in premiums.
THE entries in the stock department for
the state fair are larger than ever before in
the history of the organization. The So
ciety has been called upon to provide ore
hundred stalls in addition TO those already
erected. The exhibition in the agricultural
department will also be larger than ever
before, one Chicago firm having made ap-
plication for one hundred feet of space in
the exhibition tent.
THE Vermont Soldiers Home has re-
ceived through the Rev. l.. II. Elliot of
Waterbury, secretary of the Vermont Bible
Society, present of twenty-five Bibles of a
medium size and one large one for the read
ing-room and services. They are printed in
large type, are nicely bound and are marked
on the outside Soldiers Home, Bennng-
ton, Vt. Presented by the Sunday-school
Children of Vermont"
REV. ISAAC JENNINGS, ID D., for thirty
three years pastor of the old First church at
Bennington Center, died August 25th, aged
seventy-two years. He was well known
among New England Congregationaists
and was a graduate of Yale College, class of
1887. Among his classmates were Chief
justice Chase, Senator Evarts and others.
Mr. Jennings last public act was the pro-
nouncing of the benedicton at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Bennington battle
monument.
The Bennington Historical Society
will in a few days erect suitable
marker indicating the exact site of the
printing-house of the late William Lloyd
Garrison at Bennington Center. II stood a
few rods south of the present residence of
Charles w. Swift. The marker will bear
the following: " On this spot William Lloyd
Garrison edited the journal of the TineS
October 3, 1S2S-March % 1929. Hither
came Benjamin Lundy to enlist him in the
cause of the slave. Garrison departed
hence to lift up in Baltimore the banner of
immediate emancipation.
ID. r.. BYRUM of Keeer's Bay writes as
follows: " Noticing in last weeks issue a
statement that have the Sea-serpent, | will
add that If have not the original one-hun-
freebooter / have the Baby sea-serpent,
which is some six feet long and will weigh
from one hundred fifty to two hundred
pounds black as jet, head, back and sides
of belly white, with streabs of white ex-
tending up to muzzle on under side from
throat; eyes small. He can make as much
connection in the water as small steamer
In fact, think he can outdo the big one so
often seen. This animal, fish or serpent
will tow my boat, which is a large. heavy
Sharpe, some twenty feet long, five and
one-half feet on top, at a rafting speed. 1t
was taken off from Cooper's Point, Grand
Isle, in a sturgeon net, much tangled up,
and with difficulty got ashore, where | have
him secured waiting to exhibit him at the
fairs if suitable arrangements can be made"
DESPITE the rain the Windsor county
veterans turned out in large numbers to the
fifth annual reunion at Chester the oath.
Early trains and private conveyances
brought in some three hundred soldiers,
and with them came the Bellows Falls,
Woodstock, Ludlow and Springfield bands.
A procession was formed and marched
through the principal streets, Governor
Ormsbee and staff, together with other
prominent citizens of the state, being in
carriages. An excellent dinner was then
NV ha lnnin Of tha
which came speaking. Ex-Governor Proc
tor was president of the day, and the speak
ers were Colonel Il. NJ. Mansur, Gov
ernor Ormsbee, acknowledgement Fuller,
Colonies g. w. Hooker of Bratteboro
Albert Clarke of Rutland, Stephen Pingree
of Hartford, Judge Hugh Henry and Major
William Rounds of Chester, Dir. Bryant of
Woodstock and General Shaw of Provi-
dence, h. l. 1t was voted to hold next year S
reunion at Ludlow.
In General.
STORM off Cape Hatteras damaged
many vessels.
THE hotels harbored 1000 guests at Sara
toga over Sunday.
SIX people at Havana were murdered by
poison put in milk.
Mr. PowDERLY disavows connection with
the American party.
A BRILLIANT comet in the northern sky
is reported from Indiana.
In a riot of miners at Glen Lyon, Pa,
sixty persons were injured.
A SLIGHT earthquake occurred at Charles
ton and Columbia Saturday
FERDINAND has apparently submitted to
Russia and the Bulgarians are mad.
A WIDESPREAD epizootic disease is killing
hundreds of horses in South Jersey.
AT the New Hampshire veterans reunion,
last week, 1900 people were present.
A SERIOUS revolution has broken out in
Havana. The city is under martial law.
FIFTEEN persons persisted by the cap
sizing of yacht in Bristol Channel, En-
gland
EDITOR OBRIEN has been summoned be-
speeches.
THE Ameer is now reported in a dying
condition, owing to the amputation of one
of his legs,
A SPECIAL cable dispatch to the New Y ork
Sun from London says that Ruskin has be.
come insane.
NEARLY one hundred head of cattle have
died in st. Louis within the past few days
of Texas fever.
THIRTY persons We're injured by a col
lision between passenger and freight-train
near Chattanooga.
MAUD S." made mile in two minutes
and thirteen and One-fourth seconds, to
wagon, last Saturday
The New Hampshire house of representa-